In a message dated 97-08-18 14:42:30 EDT, (D ROSEN) writes: > Personally, I think that they beeped him or paged him. Does this sound > like something normal? When he came on the phone he didn't say that he > wasn't at the office though but would he have been able to take her call > if he wasn't there and he had been beeped? > It's possible to patch a call through to another phone if you have the right service from the phone company. They may have paged him to find out where he was, and patched the call through to a phone there, or to his cellular phone. That happens to me frequently when I want to speak to one of our pediatric surgeons. If he's not in his office, they put me on hold and transfer the call to his cell phone. Moshe Adler, MD